THE SPECIAL CASE
A spotlight shines on letters with Cambridge University letterheads behind glass.
In his Tractatus Logico-Philsophcus (1921), Wittgenstein declared that “ ‘The world is all that is the case’, thus eliminating the need to speculate about anything except how a German taught at Cambridge for 8 years during WWII without anyone noticing that he didn’t have a degree.
Well, neither did Plato or Christ.
ON September, 2010, I postulated the so-called ‘Rhubarb lemma’, which in essence states that no philosophical proposition whatever is worth more than the question of when it is safe to harvest and eat rhubarb.
It was later discovered through a google search that rhubarb was always ready to harvest and eat, but on reflection this did not affect the truth of my lemma.
I wrote to the Appointments Committee at All Souls College, Cambridge, informing them that I was an Australian, that my grandfather was the architect of the first fully Australian owned false dichotomy, and that my rhubarb lemma was at least as significant as Wittgenstein’s proposition 1.23.5, and that, as he had been given his own chair in Philosophy, I should also be allocated one, and that furthermore, they were all buffoons, dullards and idiots.
Outrageously, they have to this date refused to give me my own personal chair of philosophy, even after I called them all ‘buffoons, dullards and idiots’.
I display the letters of refusal under glass.
The only valid conclusion left is this; Wittgenstein was a special case.
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